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Nov. 3rd, 2004 10:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikDarn but my hip is sore. ("Hip" here is an approximation -- kind of the inside of the hip joint, that side of the SI joint, and various muscles in the general vacinity.)
Remember how after 9/11 there were all these people wandering around asking "why do they hate us so much?" and thee and me smiled sadly to eachother at their ignorance? I guess the shoe must now be on the other foot, because that's a lot of how I'm feeling after the election. Bush won the popular vote. And an awful lot of them were apparently really into "moral values" (which is apparently another one of these co-opted terms that doesn't mean what it sounds like it ought to). It's hard not to take it personally.
Why do they hate us so much?
And maybe I shouldn't take it so personally. I mean, probably only a small minority of Bush supporters would hate me personally, or would even stop and think about what their vote might mean to people like me. I keep hearing that Bush makes them feel safer, and that they think he's sincere and a nice guy. And that we're at war, and they need to support their president in a time of way. These things kind of boggle my mind, especially the first, but maybe if I keep listening I'll understand. (I won't agree. But I'd like to understand. I think I need to understand.)
Remember how after 9/11 there were all these people wandering around asking "why do they hate us so much?" and thee and me smiled sadly to eachother at their ignorance? I guess the shoe must now be on the other foot, because that's a lot of how I'm feeling after the election. Bush won the popular vote. And an awful lot of them were apparently really into "moral values" (which is apparently another one of these co-opted terms that doesn't mean what it sounds like it ought to). It's hard not to take it personally.
Why do they hate us so much?
And maybe I shouldn't take it so personally. I mean, probably only a small minority of Bush supporters would hate me personally, or would even stop and think about what their vote might mean to people like me. I keep hearing that Bush makes them feel safer, and that they think he's sincere and a nice guy. And that we're at war, and they need to support their president in a time of way. These things kind of boggle my mind, especially the first, but maybe if I keep listening I'll understand. (I won't agree. But I'd like to understand. I think I need to understand.)
